SilverKris Lounge

Much nicer than the United and Air Canada lounges. Lots of Asian food choices as you’d expect from an Asian airline. If you are Star Alliance Gold then give it a try!

Why and why has no one written a review at SilverKris Lounge in Heathrow? Must I be the first for everything? SilverKris is by far the best lounge in Terminal C — comparing it with the Maple Lounge next door and United Club a couple doors down.
First of all, it’s clean. The showers are nice. The bathroom is very clean. The wooden décor is very sophisticated. The food, thank goodness they serve Asian style breakfast IN ADDITION to the usual British breakfast. Let’s start with what you’d expect to see first in a typical breakfast in British lounges as well as in hotels. Sausage, Bacon (English style, mind you), scrambled eggs and hash brown, oh yes, tomatoes and baked beans. Pastries and bread and jam and honey. Espresso drinks. All three lounges offered that. Of course free wifi.
But then, here is the delta. In SilverKris, you get rice porridge (that day it was chicken). Regular porridge (essentially steel cut oatmeal — very good and I did not find it in United Club, btw, maybe it’s because Americans don’t eat that stuff), AND fried rice with malay chicken, and for condiments, you get dried fish and chillies. If you are often in and out of United Club in Hong Kong, you’d get that chicken dish, but you are not in Hong Kong, you are in London Heathrow, and this is pretty fantastic if you ask me.
I’ve been eating everything but Asian food in London. I suppose I could but I had other ethnic food to eat (like Middle Eastern and North African stuff that you just simply don’t have in the San Francisco Bay Area), but all of sudden, I was craving for Asian food.
SilverKris had that. No other lounges had that. If you are that typical white male business man traveling through Heathrow, I know you don’t care for it, but if you are traveling as a lonesome Asian female who’s dying for something more homey, you’d hugely appreciate that rice porridge for breakfast. Everywhere you go, and I mean EVERYWHERE in Asia, you get rice porridge for breakfast. What’s brilliant about SilverKris lounge is that it keeps its high quality food tradition, and it offers to you not just the usual fare, it offers a piece of home. Granted, everything is relative, this is not the SilverKris lounge in Tokyo or Hong Kong, where full on dim sum items are on display, but this is close considering it’s Europe, and I’m quite satisfied with it. Will return.